About This Item

  • Call NumberBJHP_0368
  • TitleLefenfeld family/Field Brothers store collection. Exterior facade of Field Brothers department store.
  • SummaryFront entrance of Field Brothers department store at 1114 Kings Highway, Brooklyn.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPEG, black and white
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized by donor. Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
  • Biographical NoteField Brothers stores were founded by the Lefenfeld brothers, Bernie, Harry and Jerry. Their first department store on Kings Highway in Brooklyn was followed by two others in Queens and Long Island in the 1950s. The chain flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s when they were sold to Hartmax Company. Alice, Mark and Robert, children of Bernard Lefenfeld; and Howard, son of Harry Lefenfeld, tell the story of the Field Brothers store, a Brooklyn family enterprise.
  • CreatorLefenfeld, Robert
  • SubjectDepartment stores
  • CollectionBrooklyn Jewish History Project
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Queens (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Jewish History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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